Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

This World War II-era bunker is now packed with posters and props from movies and TV shows filmed nearby.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

This airstrip atoll is uninhabited by humans, but absolutely full of birds.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.